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Orange, Pear, and Cranberry Jammie Dodgers

Cookies Sandwich Cookie Shortbread

These Jammie Dodgers were born out of my love for Doctor Who (because what Whovian doesn’t remember or love the scene where the Eleventh Doctor tries to ward off the Daleks with a Jammie Dodger?!), my love for winter fruits, and my love of all things British. Funnily enough, I never had a Jammie Dodger while …

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Orange Gingerbread Snowballs

Cookies

The holidays are coming up fast, and despite the fact that I finally have weekends again and time to focus on the important things like baking and writing that kind of fell to the wayside while I was working full months at a time, somehow I still feel underprepared for the holidays.  After a week, …

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ginger cookies - on tray - stacked

Ginger Cookies

Cookies

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to move on to the holiday famous for its cookies: Christmas.  There’s something about ginger that just tastes like the holidays and let me tell you: these Ginger Cookies taste like Christmas. Using both ground ginger and crystallized ginger, you can actually taste the flavor in these cookies. …

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Tropical Biscotti

Biscotti Cookies

Can we just take a minute to talk about the new season of Queer Eye on Netflix?  It is amazing.  I wasted no time Friday morning when I realized it was finally on and consumed the first episode before I had to run to a work event.  Then, I proceeded to come home and watch the …

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lemon and cardamom shortbread cookies/biscuits - stacked view

Lemon & Cardamom Shortbread Cookies

Cookies Shortbread

Back in 2011, my friends and I stayed up all night to watch the Royal Wedding. We’d just come off a night out at the end of our senior year and probably all managed to fit in a two-hour nap in some of my friends’ house (otherwise known as Mildred).  We gathered on the couch–and …

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Carrot Cake Cookies

Cookies

To those of you that celebrate it: Happy Easter!  To those of you that don’t: you can still enjoy the candy sales that are about to come your way.  So what if everything is egg-shaped?  Half-priced chocolate and jelly beans is a deal you really can’t pass up. There is something about the coming of …

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